MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION
MS 161
SANDERS, J V, FAA
John Sanders was born in Adelaide and in 1947 graduated in physics from the
University of Adelaide. After completing a PhD under P Bowden in Cambridge in
1949 he joined the CSIR Division of Tribophysics working on electron diffraction
and electron microscopy.
CONTENTS
Series 1 CSIRO research and administration
Series 2 Other organisations
Series 3 Lectures and academic activities
Series 4 Australian Academy of Science
Series 5 Correspondence
Series 6 Overseas visits and conferences (including papers)
Series 7 Publications
Series 8 Opal files
161/1 SERIES 1. CSIRO RESEARCH AND ADMINISTRATION
1-2 Opals: general information. Contains miscellaneous reprints,
journals,
catalogues, newspaper cuttings, government reports and some
correspondence 1900-87
3 Diffraction colours [reprints] 1951-84
4 Electron microscopy: Japan 1954-87
161/2 SERIES 1. CSIRO RESEARCH AND ADMINISTRATION
(CONT’D)
1 Crystallography 1963
2 Multiple twinning 1967
3 Electron Microscope Group - Tribophysics / Materials Science 1972-
86
4 Lattice images 1974
5 Small particles; catalysis 1974
6 Hollandite 1975
7 Optical transforms. Zeolites 1976
8 Single atoms: particle size and shape 1977-85
9 Indonesian opals 1978
10 Things in opal nd
11 Apatites 1979
12 Small angle neutron scattering 1979-80
13 Plastic opals 1979-82
14 Opal classification and nomenclature 1979-84
161/3 SERIES 1. CSIRO RESEARCH AND ADMINISTRATION
(CONT’D)
1 Asterism in sapphires: A R Moon 1979-84
2 Opal legislation 1980-83
3 Jelly opal from White Cliffs 1981
4 Coal graphite 1981
5 Divisional policy matters 1981-87
6 Opal colours. Classification scheme for Australian gems 1982-83
7 Colour measurement 1983-84
8 Gem investigations 1983-87
9 Archaeology 1984-85
10 Hisingerite 1984-85
11 Images of clusters 1984-85
12 Contribution to CSIRO Advanced Materials Booklet 1984-85
13 Faulting in pentasils 1984-85
14 Shift to Clayton 1985
15 The Australian Gemmologist 1985-87
16 Pillared clays 1986
17 Latex spheres 1986
18 Selenium in mordenite 1986-87
19 Various mordenites 1987
161/4 1. SERIES 1. CSIRO RESEARCH AND ADMINISTRATION
(CONT’D)
1 Natrolite - synthetic and natural 1987
2-8. SERIES 2. OTHER ORGANISATIONS
2 Australian Research Grants Committee 1976-79
3 Australian Research Grants Committee 1980-81
4 Australian Research Grants Committee 1984-85; Australian Research
Grants Scheme 1986-87
5 Royal Australian Chemical Institute, Solid State Division; Society
of Crystallographers in Australia; Microscopical Society of
Australia 1975-87
6 The Gemmological Association of Australia. Correspondence 1977-87
7 The Australian Gem Industry Association 1987
8 National Committee for Electron Microscopy 1984-86
161/5 1-2. SERIES 2. OTHER ORGANISATIONS (CONT’D)
1 Philips’ Cowley-Moodie Award 1984-86
2 International Union of Crystallography. Ewald Prize. Nomination of
Cowley and Moodie 1986-87
3-6. SERIES 3. LECTURES AND ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES
3 Analysis by physical techniques 1972-73
4-6 Lectures 1960-81
161/6 SERIES 3. LECTURES AND ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES (CONT’D)
1 Lectures 1982
2 Lectures 1983
3 Lectures 1984
4 Lectures 1985
5 Lectures 1986
161/7 1-7. SERIES 3. LECTURES AND ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES
(CONT’D)
1 Lectures 1987
2 Lecture course on gemmology 1984-85
3 References 1971-86
4 Reference: J M Thomas: Donald W Breck Award 1986
5 Refereeing and reviewing (papers and books) 1977-86
6 Examiner reports for theses 1970-83
7 RMIT supervisor for A E Hughes 1987
8-10. SERIES 4. AUSTRALIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCE
8 Australian Academy of Science general 1981-84
9 Australian Academy of Science general 1985
10 Australian Academy of Science general 1986-87
161/8 SERIES 4. AUSTRALIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCE (CONT’D)
1 Australian Academy of Science Sectional Committee 2 (Physics and
Astronomy) 1982-84
2 Australian Academy of Science Sectional Committee 2 (Physics and
Astronomy) 1985-87
3 Australian Academy of Science. Science and Industry Forum 1982
4 Australian Academy of Science. Science and Industry Forum 1983
5 Australian Academy of Science. Science and Industry Forum 1984-85
6 Australian Academy of Science. Science and Industry Forum 1986-87
161/9 1-2. SERIES 4. AUSTRALIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCE
(CONT’D)
1 Australian Academy of Science. Science and Industry Forum, 39th,
Thredbo, 1 February 1986: “Surfaces and their protection”, convened
by JVS
2 Australian Academy of Science. Pawsey Medal Selection Committee
1985-86
3-5. SERIES 5. CORRESPONDENCE
3 Correspondence 1964-68
4 Correspondence 1969-73
5 Correspondence 1974-79
161/10 SERIES 5. CORRESPONDENCE (CONT’D)
1 Correspondence 1980 - January 1984
2 Correspondence 1984-87
3 J R Anderson. General correspondence 1967-74
4 Len G Cram (Lightning Ridge). Correspondence 1978-87
5 Peter Darragh. Correspondence 1978-81
6 Review paper honouring Professor H. Hashimoto. Correspondence
1984-86
7 Mario Occelli (Unocal Corporation, California). Correspondence
1986-87
8 Sid Pollack, Department of Energy (US). Correspondence 1979-87
9 Harold William Sanders (1893-1983). Correspondence and obituaries
1984-85
10 Helmut Weigold (Co-Mo sulphided catalysts) 1981-84
161/11 SERIES 5. CORRESPONDENCE (CONT’D)
1 Correspondence re publications 1965-70
2 Gems and minerals - miscellaneous correspondence 1965-69
3 Gems and minerals - miscellaneous correspondence 1969-71
4 Gems and minerals - miscellaneous correspondence 1965-75
5 Opals - private information 1968-75 (one reprint 1932)
6 Opals - private information 1976-87
7 Opals - correspondence 1965-87 (part 1)
161/12 1-4. SERIES 5. CORRESPONDENCE (CONT’D)
1 Opals - correspondence 1965-87 (part 2)
2 Opals - correspondence 1965-87 (part 3)
3 Opals - correspondence 1965-87 (part 4)
4 “The electron microscopy of catalysts”. Contribution to Catalysis
science and technology, vol. 7. Correspondence 1980-87
5-8. SERIES 6. OVERSEAS VISITS AND CONFERENCES
(INCLUDING PAPERS)
5 Overseas visit, Japan, 1976
6 Overseas visit, Sweden, 1979
7 Overseas visit, Singapore, 1984
8 Overseas visit, China, 1985
161/13 SERIES 6. OVERSEAS VISITS AND CONFERENCES
(INCLUDING PAPERS) (CONT’D)
1 Australia/China scientific cooperation and exchange 1985-87
2 Overseas visit, Japan, 1986
3 Overseas visit, Arizona, 1986
4 8th International Congress on Electron Microscopy, Canberra, 25-31
August 1974
5 “Diffraction Studies of Real Atoms and Real Crystals”: International
Crystallography Conference, Melbourne, 1974.
6 Invited paper, Australian Institute of Physics Applied Physics
Conference, Melbourne, 1981
7 Conferences 1981-86
8 Erionite / Offretite - 7th International Zeolite Conference, Tokyo,
17-22 August 1986
9 Pollack, Occelli and Sanders - joint papers to 7th International
Zeolite Conference, Tokyo, 17-22 August 1986
161/14 1. SERIES 6. OVERSEAS VISITS AND CONFERENCES
(INCLUDING PAPERS) (CONT’D)
1 “Validity of structures from electron microscopy” meeting,
Melbourne, 7-9 August 1987
2-9. SERIES 7. PUBLICATIONS
2 Publications on structure, colour and origin of opals 1965-68
3 Colours in nacreous layers of molluscan shells ca 1966
4 Niobium/tungsten oxides 1969
5 “Structure and stability of small clusters of atoms”. Australian
Journal of Physics paper 1969-78
6 “The structure and stability of small clusters of atoms”. Australian
Journal of Physics 23 (1970) 23
7 n-beam lattice images: details of three separate publications 1972-
75
8 Idaho star opals: papers in The Australian Lapidary Magazine and
Lapidary Journal (US) 1974-77
9 “Microstructure and crystallinity in gem opals”. American
Mineralogist 60 (1975) 749
161/15 SERIES 7. PUBLICATIONS (CONT’D)
1 “Star opal from Idaho”. Lapidary Journal 29 (1976), 1986
2 “The structure of star opals”. Acta Crystallographica A32 (1976) 334
3 “The phase contrast component of lattice images of a zeolite
crystal”. Optik 46 (1976) 421
4 “Opals”. Scientific American 234 (1976) 84-95
5 “Precious opals in the Warrumbungles”. Australian Mineralogist 1
(1976) 9
6 “Synthetic opals”. Australian Gemmologist 13 (1977) 109
7 “Slocum stone”. Australian Gemmologist 13 (February 1978)
8 “High resolution electron microscopy of some catalytic particles”.
Chemica Scripta 14 (1978-79) 141
9 Two sizes of spheres: Nature paper 1978-79
10 Walter Boas Festschrift 1979
11 “Fuel conversion” 1979-80
12 Two sizes of spheres. Philosophical Magazine papers I and II 1980-82
161/16 1-3. SERIES 7. PUBLICATIONS (CONT’D)
1 Nickel / molybdenum oxide / sulphide system ca 1981
2 “The relationship of structure and activity of NiMo sulphides to
composition of the precursor oxides”. Journal of Catalysis 67 (1981)
331
3 Structure of carbon deposits on HDS catalysts. Applied catalysis
paper 1982-83
4-8. SERIES 8. OPAL FILES (UNDATED)
4 Pearls (file 1)
5-6 Shells (file 2)
7-8 Opaline minerals (file 3)
161/17 SERIES 8. OPAL FILES (UNDATED) (CONT’D)
1 Potch (file 4)
2 Balls [silica] (file 5)
3 Selected sets of prints as sent to colleagues (file 6)
4 Opals - etched [duplicates] (file 7)
5 Synthetic opal [duplicates] (file 8)
161/18 SERIES 8. OPAL FILES (UNDATED) (CONT’D)
1-2 Micrographs - opal (file 9)
3-4 Synthetic (file 10)
5 Opals - volcanic [duplicates] (file 11)
6 Indonesia (file 12)
161/19 SERIES 8. OPAL FILES (UNDATED) (CONT’D)
1 Non-Australian opals (file 13)
2 Opals - Victoria (file 14)
3 Idaho stars (file 15)
4 Matrix (file 16)
5 White Cliffs pineapple opal (file 17)
161/20 SERIES 8. OPAL FILES (UNDATED) (CONT’D)
1-2 Opals - Queensland (file 18)
3 The Blackness of Lightning Ridge opal (file 19)
4 Grawin (file 20)
5-6 Brazil, two size of spheres (file 21)
161/21 SERIES 8. OPAL FILES (UNDATED) (CONT’D)
1 Brazil (file 22)
2 Honduras [opals] (file 23)
3 White Cliffs (file 24)
4 Opals - South Australia (file 25)
161/22 SERIES 8. OPAL FILES (UNDATED) (CONT’D)
1 Warrumbungles (file 26)
2-3 Opals - New South Wales (file 27)
4 Opals - Western Australia [including graded colour] (file 28)
161/23 SERIES 8. OPAL FILES (UNDATED) (CONT’D)
1-2 Crystalline volcanics (file 29)
3 Oddments (file 30)
4 American opals [file 1 of 2] (file 31)
161/24 SERIES 8. OPAL FILES (UNDATED) (CONT’D)
1 American opals [file 2 of 2] (file 31)
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